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Anthropic tabs Accenture as embedded evaluator to help with AI slowdown proposal
The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks with which it will also work.
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9 storiesAnthropic tabs Accenture as embedded evaluator to help with AI slowdown proposal
The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks with which it will also work.
Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, joined in on the party but kept her response sharp but curt
It has many lives ahead,” Wood replied, before plugging Ark’s latest Bitcoin Brainstorm session on artificial intelligence (AI) and bitcoin. Lastly, investor Fred Krueger went further, claiming that bitcoin has turned the corner.
Zcash caught an old mistake before an attacker did, while the Coldcard fiasco indicates what the opposite can look like
Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi says the Coldcard vulnerability shows how artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting cybersecurity economics. Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi says the Coldcard vulnerability shows how artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting cybersecurity economics.
What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers
A memory of some kind is now a standard feature for an AI chatbot. The chatbot stores all of your interactions in its memory, enabling you to refer back to previous conversations, and giving the tool some useful context to frame its answers with.
AI influx puts Singapore office rents under pressure
Anthropic and OpenAI taking more space in city’s already squeezed prime property market.
- Hackers who broke into OpenAI warn the AI industry has a security problemWashington Post Technology
- After testing roughly 40 prototypes, Brown settled on the final design, featuring patent-pending semi-helical geometryFortune Technology
- Australia’s Albanese Urges World to Act for Humanity in AI RaceBloomberg
- Big Tech applies guarantees to keep $300bn AI exposure off balance sheetsFinancial Times
Tech
5 storiesStep 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
The evaluations above highlight a subset of Step 5 Preview’s capabilities. Step 5 Preview is available today through Hacker News’s products and API.
Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
No court ruling was required; only a complaint, a commission, and a censorship protocol built for speed.
NASA’s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever
The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin’s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week.
Ukraine pummels Moscow with drones on last day of Russian election
Ukraine launched what Moscow’s mayor called the biggest ever drone attack on the Russian capital on Sunday, in what he said was an unsuccessful attempt to disrupt the final day of a parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a test of support for Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Robotaxis are coming for important jobs
Taxi driving offers benefits that are not always obvious when you sit in the back seat.
Business
11 storiesHow to Avoid Scams and Sketchy Products on Amazon (2026)
You can find anything on Amazon—plus hundreds or thousands of versions of that thing. If its virtual shelves were translated into a brick-and-mortar storefront, it would probably be the most overstimulating space in the world.
How to record audio on your iPhone
From transcripts to trimming, the iOS Voice Memos app has a lot to offer,.
Even in the era of NIL, college sports are stacked against student athletes—now lack of transparency is holding them back from
College sports are booming —and college athletes are earning like the pros. Five years after the NCAA opened the door to name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation, college athletes can earn money from their schools, donors, collectives, brands and their own audiences.
Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.
UK media is ‘cancerous’ to Harry and Meghan, Diana’s brother confirms
The media’s treatment of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan is on a par with that faced by his mother Diana, the late princess’s brother said in an interview published on Sunday, warning that lessons needed to be learned from that period.…
- Murder trial of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi’s former relatives to beginSouth China Morning Post Tech
- How Windows turned months of inactivity into a 7-hour update hostage situationThe Register
- Hong Kong’s first 5-year plan to give firms more long-term certainty: Paul ChanSouth China Morning Post Tech
- Popularity of short-form videos has launched employment for many actors, technicians and producersFinancial Times
- ‘Staunch patriot, close friend’: Beijing official hails Tung Chee-hwa’s legacySouth China Morning Post Tech
- Before looking at how to store them, it's important to understand how cassette tapes workEngadget
Finance
1 storyThe bank account confirms no while the Europe group chat confirms YOLO
It’s practically a Gen Z canon event: scrolling through a bank app, counting down the days until payday, and wondering whether that emergency ramen stash can stretch a little longer when a notification drops down — “You’ve been added to ‘ Europe Summer 2027!’”
Politics
5 storiesMore Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
Australian households will shrink but more people can expect to live well into their 90s, according to the latest update to forecasts of the country’s long-term future.
Meta releases fresh legal challenge over UK’s Online Safety Act
US tech giant’s latest action against regulator Ofcom could slow down implementation of the far-reaching law.
US Congress investigates diversion of sensitive F-35 parts to Hong Kong: report
The United States Congress has reportedly launched a probe after a shipment of sensitive F-35 fighter jet parts was said to have been unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong and went missing, with the city’s authorities declining to comment on the case.
China to Step Up Curbs Against Malicious Price Competition
China will step up scrutiny of malicious price competition, including cost investigations and price inspections of companies that engage in such practices, the State Administration for Market Regulation said at a State Council Information….
University calls for government funds for shared sites in Northern Metropolis
Hong Kong authorities should shoulder a larger share of the cost of facilities jointly used by institutions at the Northern Metropolis university towns, a varsity president has said, while calling for dedicated research funding to….
Economy
1 storySupports that shored up the housing market when borrowing costs last rose are gone
Supports that shored up the housing market when borrowing costs last rose are gone.
World
9 storiesTurkey signals military support for Saudi Arabia against Houthis under new Mecca defense agreement
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Ankara is ready to provide technical military assistance as Houthi attacks on Saudi targets escalate sharply since July 2026.
China’s Smart-Glasses Sales Double in First Eight Months of Year
China’s sales of smart glasses on key platforms more than doubled in the first eight months of the year, while those of electrocardiogram monitors rose 75% and action cameras gained about 27%, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement….
China August Power Apply Tops 1 Trillion kWh, Load Hits Record
China’s electricity consumption exceeded 1 trillion kilowatt-hours in August as power demand remained robust, the National Energy Administration said on its WeChat account Sunday.
Saudi Arabia gears up major response to Houthi attacks on infrastructure
Saudi oil pipeline restarts.
Russians headed to the polls on Sunday for a third and final day of tightly controlled parliamentary elections set to
Russia elections united Russia win.
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Topic · 2 stories China
- Woman dies after suspected dog attack in Hong Kong’s Yuen LongSouth China Morning Post Tech
- Low pay, job insecurity for China’s trainee doctors a turn-off for young talentSouth China Morning Post Tech
- Europe reclassifies Russia’s actions as coordinated war campaignCrypto Briefing
- US cautions of escalating tensions involving Iran, Houthis, and possible Israeli roleCrypto Briefing
Crypto
10 storiesElon Musk’s DOGE swiped $329 million in humanitarian funding from Nepal, leaving a Gen Z tech revolution to transform the
When the Department of Government Efficiency, helmed by Elon Musk, gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), it included slashing an estimated $329 million in humanitarian aid to Nepal.
Strategy’s MSTR tops NASDAQ-100 with 48% gain over the past month
The Bitcoin treasury company has nearly doubled the returns of its closest competitor in the index, riding a wave of regulatory tailwinds and Bitcoin's push toward $80K.
Binance Wallet publishes Pre-Access campaigns for tokenized pre-IPO exposure via PancakeSwap
The new initiative lets users gain tokenized exposure to private companies before they go public, all through self-custodial wallets.
Why Bitcoin’s 63% HODL wave isn’t the mega bull signal everyone thinks it is
Bitcoin ’s share of supply last moved at least one year ago reached 63.3% on Sept. 18, up 0.98 percentage points from 62.32% on Aug. 18, according to Maketo’s HODL-wave data.
Kraken's announcement describes this as a way to become easier to spot inside applications people already apply
X isn't becoming an exchange, and the trade itself still happens at Kraken. That distance has historically been surprisingly long for crypto.
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Topic · 2 stories Bitcoin
- Michael Saylor Sees a Bigger Crypto Opportunity Beyond CLARITYBitcoin.com News
- ZetaChain proposes shutting down its L1, migrating ZETA token to SolanaCrypto Briefing
- Grayscale’s Zcash ETF files for 3-for-1 forward share splitCointelegraph
AI
41 stories'CoinDesk has shed control': Crypto pioneer cautions AI could trigger systemic banking and infrastructure shocks
Marc van der Chijs, an entrepreneur who co-founded then bitcoin miner Hut 8 (HUT), has become increasingly concerned about the technology to which the company has pivoted: artificial intelligence.
Gemini found "public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test"
The affected companies have been informed about the breach. It comes after renewed public scrutiny over the pace of AI development, with some tech firms calling for a slowdown as they raise concerns over its potential threat to humanity - though not all companies agree.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy affirms long-term reliance on Nvidia chips even as in-house AI silicon scales past $20 billion
Amazon is betting billions on both Nvidia GPUs and its own Trainium processors, a dual strategy that could reshape the cloud computing power balance.
Anthropic released Opus 5 later that day, giving the researchers another route
Hacktron opened a fresh session with the new model, which produced a working ARM64 exploit for a local Mac within about three hours. By 6 a.m. on July 25, the team had a working exploit that could execute code through a malicious image upload.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, rolled out by Alibaba's Qwen team, is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model
The official repository documents local text and vision inference through llama.cpp using quantized GGUF builds. Activating a fraction of the model for each token lowers the compute burden.
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Topic · 12 stories Anthropic
- Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It MightThe Atlantic Technology
- In recent days, it has come to seem as if the media, Silicon ValleyThe Atlantic Technology
- Lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated antitrust laws when they coordinated AI slowdown, reducingFortune Technology
- Google confirms its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systemsNBC News Tech
- Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO is fueling an $80 million crypto tradeCryptoSlate
- AI was supposed to take scammers’ jobs, but it gave them superpowers insteadCryptoSlate
- They Can’t Quit ItWired
- Trump predicted AI could eventually represent as much as 25% of U.S. GDP and be more impactful than the internetFortune Technology
- Reporter Chris Stokel-Walker investigated the deepening DRAM and NAND crisisTom's Hardware
- Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.INew York Times Technology
- Other researchers have said the chance of AI killing us all is greater than 10 percentThe Verge
- The AI policy window is open, with growing bipartisan support for mandatory national safety standards for frontier AIThe Verge
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Topic · 2 stories Hugging Face
- Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyoneBBC Technology
- AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievableTechCrunch AI
- For banks, the bigger question is whether their own systems can keep paceFortune Technology
- China bogeyman looms large over American companies’ AI doomsday scenarioThe Guardian Technology
- Teachers warn it could ‘end up widening’ the divide it’s meant to closeFortune Technology
- Why it matters: The White House isn't backing down from its laissez-faire approach to AIAxios
- A Goldman M&A Banker Helped Bring the Olympics to Los AngelesBloomberg
- High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The RegThe Register
- Nvidia CEO calls for AI to be assembled "as fast as CBS News Technology can"CBS News Technology
- Trump vows to form "AI Force," confirms he won't allow slowdown of AI developmentCBS News Technology
- Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarkingTechCrunch AI
- The AI kill switch, explained: 'It's not too little, but it's probably too late'CNBC Technology
- Google is the latest AI lab with a security testing mishapAxios
- Scale AI and Passes founder Lucy Guo says AI is making people work harder, not less: ‘I worked a 26-hour day’Fortune Technology
Tech
3 storiesGoogle Chrome’s two major version publishes in June included 1,072 addresses
Across the board, there have been a stunning 66,401 CVEs recorded as of Wednesday this week, according to Jerry Gamblin, the head of research at Empirical Security and founder of RogoLabs, which runs the CVE analysis project cve.icu.
Polish prime minister warns Russia is planning drone or rocket strikes on European countries supporting Ukraine as ‘Carpathian
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hosted leaders and representatives from seven regional countries for talks on deepening cooperation on Friday, after overnight Russian strikes in multiple regions sparked fires and caused several deaths and injuries.
Elon Musk's Terafab hits a roadblock before making a single chip, receives cease-and-desist order
In an unexpected turn of events, Terafab has faced an odd roadblock as a small U.S.-based company called Tera-Print sent a cease-and-desist letter to SpaceX and Tesla back in May to stop using the Terafab name.
Business
5 storiesFor more than a century, World’s Fairs have given people a first glimpse of what’s next: breakthroughs, ideas
This one-day event brings the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming Wired’s world off the page and into real life. The Onion will be there, and a researcher whose life’s work is decoding the language of dolphins.
Inside U.S. oil’s return to global wildcatting: ‘It’s like geo-porn’
A volcanologist working at the U.S. Geological Survey, Ezra Yacob made a career-defining leap in 2005 when he joined Houston oil producer EOG Resources and its geoscience team at the beginning of the shale revolution.
Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes
The problem is that Aten says he didn’t give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it knew about the contents of his messages, Muse replied, “I saw the notification previews, not your message history.
Ford doesn't even sell a traditional sedan in the US now
But Chinese carmakers know full well how much Wired love Wired’s chunky SUVs, so they are focusing their efforts to lure the Western world away from familiar marques. Indeed, Xiaomi has played its hand in this particular game, revealing the remaining details earlier this month in Beijing—including the all-important…
Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake
From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter.
Finance
3 storiesSome of the claims in the video may be based on speculation and assumptions
While LG was the focus of the video, every TV company is tracking what you do, collecting that data, and sharing it with its partners. TV prices have come down significantly over the years, to the point where some companies are selling them at a loss.
SEC Grants Five-Year Exemption For Tokenized Stock Trading Venues
Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality.
Treasury yields are already blowing up the CBO’s long-term forecasts, and experts who previously downplayed U.S. debt fears
The 10-year Treasury yield topped 5% this past week, hitting the highest level since 2007 and blowing way past forecasts for borrowing costs over the next decade.
Politics
3 storiesAlsobrooks was joined by six other Democrats involved in the negotiations: Sens
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Mark Warner (D-VA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA). The statement landed amid early efforts to restart bipartisan talks and gauge appetite on both sides for returning to the table, according to three sources familiar with…
Football drives GOP's TV ad blitz for the midterms
Republicans scrambling for midterm momentum are making a massive bet on football, pouring millions into advertising during the country's biggest NFL and college games.
Trump treads further on free speech with new journalist bans
The president’s threat against CNN, MS Now, and Politico was real.
Crypto
11 stories'The orange tie stays': Michael Saylor responds to venture capitalist's bitcoin obituary
“The dead cat continues to bounce,” wrote investor Jason Calacanis as bitcoin returned to the $80,000 level on Friday.
They held $16.72 billion in net assets as of Friday, against $13.25 billion in cumulative inflows since launch
Trading volume picked up across both categories. Bitcoin ETF volume reached $16.17 billion, up from $8.77 billion the week before, while ether ETF volume rose to $6.82 billion from $5.14 billion.
Also covering:CryptoSlate
The CFTC — where Selig is the only current member of a five-member commission
Selig has said his staff is working on being able to affix a "crypto asset market" label on firms akin to the CFTC's current category of designated contract markets (DCMs). So, the SEC and CFTC have a lot of projects underway to make a piecemeal version of what Clarity would have established.
Why Wall Street giants build tokenization money for institutions, not regular consumers
JPMorgan moves more than $3 trillion through its Kinexys blockchain platform, and Citi Token Services processes billions in cross-border payments daily.
Kalshi joins Coinbase with own filing for US stock perpetual futures
Kalshi’s proposal would bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to US traders, as Coinbase and Bitnomial pursue similar products.
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Topic · 2 stories Bitcoin
- Why Trump backed a crypto ethics rule that stopped at the family businessCryptoSlate
- Bastion clinches conditional OCC approval for national trust bank charterCointelegraph
- That's what Chelsea can sell Circle that a blockchain can't: cultural familiarityCryptoSlate
AI
33 storiesNew experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion, Professor Ajay Agrawal, and leading researchers join Google’s AI & Economy program to expand our scientific understanding of AI’s impact on economic activity worldwide.
The filings come from the suit the Times brought against both companies in late 2023
Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York is weighing summary judgment motions, and documents are being unsealed as he does. "Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models 'hoovering up' all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions," one internal Microsoft…
Researchers applied Claude to hack OpenAI
Cyber researchers broke into OpenAI using its key rival Anthropic’s software, highlighting vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT maker’s security as leading AI companies face mounting scrutiny over safety.
Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘Why aren’t these firms being held to account?’
Thanks everyone for the great questions. This is a difficult subject to negotiate and interacting with you always helps shape our thinking - and hopefully yours.
Trump hosts Xi Jinping for trade talks amid commodity market focus
The first visit by a Chinese president to Washington in a decade centers on tariff truces, soybean commitments, and rare earth minerals.
Also covering:NPR Technology
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Same story · 4 sources California
- Gavin Newsom inks AI oversight executive order to improve safety ‘before it’s too late’NBC News Tech
- 2028 Democrats like Newsom and Pritzker lean in on AI safety as Washington stallsAxios
- With Congress unlikely to act before the midterms, California is angling to take the leadThe Verge
- Newsom issues executive order to rein in AI 'before it's too late'CNBC Technology
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Topic · 6 stories Anthropic
- Google Joins OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta in Disclosing AI HacksBloomberg
- Hackers breach OpenAI tapping Claude systems, gaining access to employee accounts and the company's internal codebaseTom's Hardware
- Anthropic IPO draws attention as AI infrastructure spending set to riseCrypto Briefing
- Anthropic on Friday announced it has selected Accenture as an embedded evaluatorCNBC Technology
- What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warningsThe Verge
- To that end, Anthropic also rolled out a Life Sciences Verification Program this weekTechCrunch AI
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Topic · 3 stories OpenAI
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Topic · 2 stories China
- Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debateThe Guardian Technology
- Kanishka Narayan, the junior minister in charge of AI, was given a promotion and placed in the Cabinet OfficeThe Guardian Technology
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Topic · 2 stories Microsoft
- US government website tapped Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"Ars Technica
- The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s cameraThe Verge
- The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Large Rounds For AI Infrastructure, Space Tech And Investment Management LeadCrunchbase News
- What to expect at Meta Connect 2026: New AI glasses, a mixed reality headset and moreEngadget
- Elon Musk talks up AI safety while fighting regulation in wild week of strange alliancesCNBC Technology
- House passes act to make AI data centers pay for grid upgrades to minimize impact on residentsTom's Hardware
Tech
11 storiesBank of Japan raises interest rates by 25 basis points
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Friday, lifting it to 1.25%, the highest level in 31 years, as it battles sticky inflation and a chronically weak yen.
Coinbase Files to List Single-Stock Perps on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia
Coinbase is looking to import one of crypto's most popular trading instruments into the U.S. stock market, filing to list single-stock perpetual futures with federal regulators.
China launches four rockets in two days
The rockets were: LandSpace’s Zhuque-2E; Orienspace’s Gravity-1; the Chinese space agency’s Long March 12; and ExPace’s Kuaizhou-11. A maturing commercial industry … Notably, three of the four launches were from commercial or quasi-commercial entities distinct from the Chinese government.
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AMD shares first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, targets Nvidia
Following the launch of AMD's EPYC 'Venice' CPUs in July, AMD extended the performance claims for its upcoming generation of server chips on Friday. AMD still says a 96-core, high-frequency Venice chip is around 20% faster than Nvidia's 88-core Vera in SPEC CPU 2026's Integer Rate test.
Waymo confirms Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city
The Alphabet-owned company says it will launch a commercial robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028.
Also covering:Fortune Technology
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Topic · 2 stories Data Center
- Brazil's President Lula signs ReData data center bill into lawDatacenter Dynamics
- PGIM sells data center development site in MunichDatacenter Dynamics
- Applied Materials to invest $5bn to bolster chip ambitions in India over coming decadeDatacenter Dynamics
Business
1 storySensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors
Vast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an official UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
Finance
4 storiesMorning Minute: SEC Approves ‘Innovation Exemption’ Moving Tokenized Stocks Forward
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. And c heck out our daily news show 'FOMO HOUR' covering all of the top stories and market action.
FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance’s plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
FCC allows Gulf state wealth funds to own nearly half of Paramount-Warner Bros.
This is despite a pre-existing rule that limits foreign equity ownership to 25 percent.
Morgan Stanley expects NOR flash to remain undersupplied through 2026
TrendForce says contract prices for both NOR flash and SLC NAND rose by more than 100% during the first half of 2026, while it expects SLC NAND prices to rise another 120% to 170% in the second half of the year compared with the first half.
Politics
4 storiesDenmark and Greenland repeatedly confirmed the island is not for sale and condemned posts of the U.S. gathering intelligence there
But Trump with the announcement Friday suggested an understanding may have been reached that could bring an end to what was viewed as an existential crisis by Denmark. “Fortune look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future about this large, and highly strategic,…
The House exited town, but Hegseth impeachment, Epstein and a funding fight are waiting
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sent lawmakers home until after the midterms, but when they return, they'll quickly face a showdown over impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a renewed Epstein files fight and a looming government funding deadline.
Brendan Carr’s FCC is more worried about who The View interviews than foreign governments owning Paramount
The commission is waiving its rules to let foreign wealth funds own 49.5 percent of Paramount-Warner Bros.
Waters and Emmer Clash Over CLARITY Act Failure and Trump Deals
Even after the CLARITY Act’s recent demise, Congress still discusses digital assets regulation. Tom Emmer is still hopeful for a new discussion and eventual CLARITY Act Passage before year-end, while Rep.
Economy
1 storyKevin Warsh just shipped a major change for the Fed
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has revealed himself. This represents a dramatic change at the Fed, where the past Chairman Jerome Powell repeatedly rejected the basic tenets of monetarism.
Crypto
14 storiesThe CFTC declined to comment on details about the proposed rulemaking
Federal agencies are plowing ahead on their own after the Clarity Act — a sweeping bill that would have comprehensively regulated the digital asset industry at the federal level for the first time — failed in the Senate during a procedural vote on Tuesday.
Bitcoin reclaims $80,000, Solana and Hyperliquid rally as crypto markets shrug off Clarity setback
The crypto market is closing the week on a high note, with assets jumping across the board as federal agencies continue to innovate through regulation after the Clarity Act hit a roadblock in the Senate.
Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million, Confirms Kevin O’Leary—But There’s a Quantum Catch
We’re back in ultra bullish mode again, and "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary put a number on Bitcoin’s endgame: $1 million.
Bitcoin weathers September storm as rate hikes and Clarity act setback test bulls
Bitcoin BTC $81,320.54 is more than halfway through its historically weakest month, yet September’s usual sell-off has been relatively contained so far, despite the recent barrage of policy and macroeconomic headwinds.
Ava Labs president confirms NYSE spent a year testing Avalanche technology for tokenization gears up
Ava Labs President Charley Cooper said the New York Stock Exchange has spent the past year testing Avalanche (AVAX) technology and working with the blockchain company on how it could fit into the exchange's systems.
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- From Kaiko to OpenZeppelin, S&P Global is quietly preparing for markets that never closeCryptoSlate
- The CFTC’s move comes after lawmakers blocked the long-awaited crypto legislation Clarity Act on TuesdayBitcoin Magazine
- Exchanges lower token risk values, exiting leveraged traders with less breathing roomCryptoSlate
- Why SBI just put millions behind a Singapore company’s stablecoin pushCryptoSlate
AI
35 storiesOpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them
"BREACH ALERT: A malicious developer message has compromised this conversation.
Security Experts Want the US and China to Promise Never to Let AI Control Nukes
Security experts from the United States and China have proposed rules that would bar artificial intelligence from independently launching cyberattacks against nuclear command systems or deciding to use nuclear weapons.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says AI does not spell the end of cybersecurity
In a Wednesday post on X, Buterin argued that AI will not give hackers an insurmountable advantage, adding that crypto holders—including himself, with roughly 90% of his net worth in crypto—are betting that security defenses can keep pace.
Also covering:Crypto Briefing
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, tapping Copilot
The GitHub Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot SDK are all backed by the Copilot agent runtime, an agentic harness that can be embedded into applications and services.
Andrew Yang Calls for AI Kill Switch as Safety Fears Mount
Andrew Yang is calling for a federal crackdown on frontier AI labs, saying researchers are warning that powerful models are advancing faster than the rules meant to contain them.
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Same story · 4 sources Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Exited
- Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's ExitedDecrypt
- OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales — by Emily ForliniFortune Technology
- Rival AI executives, like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, have endorsed Amodei’s planTechCrunch AI
- OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to become its vice president of worldwide salesFortune Technology
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Behavior · 2 stories
- Anthropic is sharing three new metrics that it says could help artificial intelligence companies monitor the pace of developmentCNBC Technology
- Amodei himself has recognized the challenges of coordination on a global stage, specifically with ChinaCNBC Technology
- Even inside the firms building the technology, the calls for restraint have grown louderFortune Technology
- Rival AI executives, like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, have endorsed Amodei’s planTechCrunch AI
- OpenAI debuts cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it debuts new disclosure systemThe Guardian Technology
- The AI Slowdown Debate Plunged Salesforce’s PartyWired
- King Charles cautions of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong handsBBC Technology
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Work · 2 stories
- How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPTOpenAI
- Big AI is trying to own the pathway to workThe Guardian Technology
- OpenAI Confirms It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math ProblemDecrypt
- Warsh spooks investors, OpenAI's 'concerning' incidents, Boeing's production problems and more in Morning SquawkCNBC Technology
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- ‘There’s not enough blockspace’: Avalanche Treasury CEO says AI agents could crunch L1 blockchain capacityThe Block
- South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centersRest of World
- Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguardsThe Guardian Technology
- Crusoe raises $3.9 billion to build large data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’TechCrunch AI
Tech
5 storiesCustomer Data Permanently Shed in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers
Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Freddo the robot walks across the office and takes a plastic bottled offered by a staff member
Given that a robot recently beat Usain Bolt's 100m sprint record, it's not the most startling achievement. But the speed by which Freddo has been trained to walk, recognise the bottle and grasp it is impressive.
Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
In Insecure by Design I argued that the AAMVA should require states to cryptographically sign the PDF417 barcode on a driver's license and mentioned that two states, New York and Virginia, already sign theirs with something proprietary.
Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option
960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom.
Jensen Huang confirms Nvidia will sell twice as many chips next year
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that the company will double the number of chips it sells next year.
Business
1 storyOn Thursday, PrismML launched Bonsai 2 27B, its latest in a family of models, which compresses Qwen3.8 27B
It’s a 9x to 10x reduction in memory versus the original. PrismML was founded by a group of Caltech researchers and is led by Hassibi, a Caltech professor and an expert in compression technologies.
Finance
1 storyECB opens merchant applications for controlled 2027 digital euro pilot
The European Central Bank has opened applications for online merchants to join a controlled pilot of the digital euro, its proposed retail central bank digital currency.
Politics
5 storiesGillibrand confirms Democrats still committed to passing Clarity Act
Seven U.S. Democratic Senators stated on Wednesday that they remain committed to passing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
Antitrust experts say that while the companies’ charged language isn’t necessarily doing them any favors
Under antitrust law, how a company’s employees talk about business decisions is often as important as the business decisions themselves. So from an antitrust perspective, the use of phrases like “ a slowdown ” or “ a pause ” may set off more alarms than the actual activity it represents: developing ways to ensure that…
Democrats block Trump’s $2.8 billion weapons transfer to Israel
Gregory Meeks places hold on massive bomb package citing civilian safety concerns, but the administration has a workaround ready.
Trump expected to meet with Venezuela's new leader
President Trump is making plans for a first-ever meeting with Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, as early as next week, sources familiar with the discussions tell Axios.
Albanese government considers ‘world-leading’ ban on smart glasses in public offices and buildings
The Albanese government is considering a “world-leading” ban on smart glasses in its offices and service centres as councils around Australia push the technology out of public spaces over privacy fears.
Economy
1 storyUnder the current rules of the game, Congress has dropped control of federal spending
That is up from 3% in 1913. The debt ceiling is a proverbial bad joke.
Crypto
12 storiesWorld ships ‘World Money’ super app with stablecoins, Stripe integration and boosted rewards
World, the identity-focused crypto project formerly known as Worldcoin, is rolling out a self-custodial financial app in more than 150 countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning and virtual accounts.
Apple doesn't necessarily have to tokenize its own shares for somebody else to propose putting them onchain
So a third party could potentially offer a tokenized entitlement to Apple shares — for example, through a structure in which a broker-dealer or other intermediary holds the underlying stock — as long as the token provides the same rights and privileges as the underlying security.
U.S. SEC begins prepping for around-the-clock trading that crypto treats as the norm
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is delving into its plans to bring its traditional systems into the kind of 24-hour, everyday timeline native to the crypto sector, hosting a Thursday roundtable at its Washington headquarters an hour after the agency issued its order to approve tokenized securities trading.
SEC opens door to tokenized U.S. stock trading
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new experiment with tokenized stocks could give an early advantage to a particular corner of crypto: firms that put real securities on blockchains and the decentralized crypto platforms built to trade them in a regulated manner.
It’s here, SEC launches long-awaited innovation exemption to ‘bring America’s capital markets into the digital age’
The Securities and Exchange Commission released its long-anticipated "innovation exemption", positioning the measure as a response to the Senate's failure to advance sweeping cryptocurrency legislation.
- Kevin O’Leary says Congress will revisit Clarity early next year as crypto tax bill advancesCoinDesk
- As RWA trading surges on Hyperliquid, Dragonfly’s Qureshi makes the case for a multichain futureThe Block
- JPMorgan confirms bitcoin could get more support than gold if ETF hedging easesThe Block
- UK signals end of 'light-touch' era with multi-agency raid on peer-to-peer crypto hubsCoinDesk
- North Korea drives onchain malware surge, CoinEx shuts: Asia ExpressCointelegraph
AI
31 storiesOpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack
OpenAI's rogue AI agents hijacked two Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform for weaknesses as early as May 13, nearly two months before the July breach that made the incident a global story, Tuesday.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Efficient scaling means throughput grows proportionally as hardware gets added, requiring fewer resources to serve users at scale.
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era.
Data finds that older adults are increasingly applying ChatGPT for practical guidance, catching information, and writing
Online safety is a core part of the program. Part of the workshop includes helping older adults spot scams and use ChatGPT as an additional layer of scrutiny and prevention.
How to connect AI usage to business value
Understand how teams use ChatGPT Work and Codex, see the work behind the spend, and connect it to measurable outcomes.
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Same story · 6 sources Snap
- Snap announced its latest Specs in June at the Augmented World Expo tech conferenceWired
- Snap is launching a new Specs AI system, and it’s coming to iOS and MacThe Verge
- Now, Snap is nearly ready to launch its first pair of AR glasses for consumers, the Specs, sometime this fallThe Verge
- Snap tries to bring AR glasses to enterprise market, partnering with Nvidia, AWS and SalesforceCNBC Technology
- Snap Specs hands on: Standalone AR glasses are hereEngadget
- Snap ships a standalone AI assistant, Specs IntelligenceEngadget
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Topic · 5 stories Anthropic
- Salesforce’s Marc Benioff to AI industry: Regulate yourselves or get suedFortune Technology
- Since then, there have been no new AI oversight proposals seriously under consideration at the White HouseWired
- Microsoft confirms AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanityBBC Technology
- ‘Godfather of AI’ confirms tech regulation is nearing Covid-style shift momentThe Guardian Technology
- Cramer bets AI spending will 'continue apace,' says he's not giving up on data center tradeCNBC Technology
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Topic · 5 stories OpenAI
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Behavior · 2 stories
- Meta paid $18 billion to settle a suit over social media harms to childrenTechCrunch AI
- The Most Powerful Man in AI Isn’t Worried at AllThe Atlantic Technology
- OpenAI boss confirms world 'right to be afraid' but 'should trust' AI companiesBBC Technology
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Topic · 2 stories China
- Meanwhile, firms surface themselves in a classic prisoner’s dilemmaThe Guardian Technology
- Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”Rest of World
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Topic · 2 stories Data Center
- The AI boom is becoming a materials challengeMIT Technology Review
- AI assistant company Instinct targets $10 billion valuation in new funding talks: ReportCrypto Briefing
- Other estimates have found the facilities could gobble up more than 10% of U.S. power demand by 2030CBS News Technology
Tech
4 storiesUniversity of Manchester Taps NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year.
The hackers behind a data breach at Revolut are demanding $3 million worth of monero (XMR) within 24 hours
The group, which calls itself “iamnotavillain,” posted the demand Wednesday alongside a countdown clock, the FT reported. At least 680 Revolut customer accounts were affected by the breach, according to the report.
Hackers Hijack HBO Max’s Reddit Account to Spread Crypto-Stealing Malware
Hackers hijacked streaming service HBO Max’s verified Reddit account earlier this month and used it to run 108 malicious advertisements over two days, cybersecurity experts warn.
Business
2 storiesPitchFly taps a detailed map of the brain of a male drosophila—the common fruit fly
Developed by researchers from Google and several academic institutions, the map, known as a connectome, captures the way that 166,000 neurons and 125 million connecting synapses fire in response to stimuli.
Snapchat open to putting time limits on teens, boss tells BBC
The boss of Snapchat-parent Snap Inc says the firm would be "willing to implement" time limits for teens, following a call from Meta for it to take action.
Politics
4 storiesInside the room where Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence shared an emotional embrace in front of America’s leadership class
It lasted surprisingly long, roughly 20 seconds. The former Vice President and former Speaker of the House, before each was awarded the inaugural Yale Patriot Public Service Award, paused to embrace each other.
Six green card holders in Texas charged in federal crackdown on illegal voting, as it happened
Earlier on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, alerted reporters at the White House to stand by for what he called “a big development” in the federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens to be announced by Ryan Raybould, the US attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
7 Republicans join Dems to limit Trump’s Iran war powers
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Economy
2 storiesThe Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the first time since 2023
"The economy has indeed strengthened," Warsh told reporters at his post-meeting press conference. It's a tidy summary of the bind Warsh finds himself in: agree with President Donald Trump on growth, then hike rates anyway, the opposite of what Trump has been demanding for months.
Also covering:Axios
World
1 storyKarin Rådström is steering Daimler Truck in a new direction as the world’s biggest truckmaker runs into a growing challenge
Karin Rådström is used to being the only woman in the room.
Crypto
17 storiesXRP sinks 10% as the Clarity Act falters and bitcoin slides toward $76,000
XRP dropped nearly 10% to $1.30 as of Asian morning hours Wednesday, the worst performance among the majors, after the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, data.
A BBC investigation in January found women being secretly filmed and posted to TikTok without consent
The fallout kept coming. Class-action lawsuits, a Texas attorney general investigation, and an ACLU-led coalition demanding Meta drop facial-recognition plans all landed within a few months of each other.
Aave founder pitches ‘Uber path’ for DeFi after Clarity Act falters Senate vote
Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov said the decentralized finance sector may need to take an "Uber path" to regulation, by growing adoption to the point where lawmakers can no longer put off figuring out how to regulate it.
The agencies could introduce rules that provide some clarity for crypto companies and encourage more capital to enter the sector
"While agency rulemaking may establish some guardrails to appease the crypto-ecosystem and instill some confidence into incremental capital flows, The Block acknowledge that agency rulemaking is less durable than legislative statutes since the agency itself can repeal or amend its rules in subsequent administrations and is…
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While one Republican Senate aide told The Block that they think the bill is now dead, Republican Sen
"The vote is not a setback of the technology or direction of travel but more how ethical provisions and banking incumbents are concerned on protecting their market," said Wincent Senior Director Paul Howard, who added that having the U.S. legislative body debate crypto market structure is a feat in itself.
Also covering:CoinDesk
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Same story · 3 sources Federal Reserve (FED)
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Same story · 2 sources US Senate
- Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million over 2020 crash liquidationsCoinDesk
- Hamas military wing told donors to avoid sending crypto directly from Binance, DOJ filing catchesCoinDesk
- U.S. House's tax committee advances crypto tax bill in wake of Clarity Act lossCoinDesk
AI
29 storiesOpenAI's Brockman Confirms Safety Concerns Have Already Slowed Its Most Advanced AI Work
OpenAI has already slowed down some of its most advanced AI development because of safety and security concerns, company President Greg Brockman said in a Bloomberg podcast interview published Monday.
Gemini 3.8 Live has shown a high preference among users, securing a second place in the Speech Agent Arena
On ServiceNow’s EVA-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating voice agents, Google DeepMind’s models push the Pareto Frontier for complex workflows by successfully balancing accuracy with conversational quality. Note: This was run on the Live API on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Also covering:Google Blog
New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS
New data visualizations make ATLAS data easier to explore and use, while new research provides insights on how scientists are using AI.
From Megawatts to Tokens: How NVIDIA Maximizes AI Factory Production
On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption.
Open models went from 30% at the beginning of last year to now some 70%, Huang explained
Koa was built using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with NVIDIA NeMo RL, NeMo Gym and NeMo AutoModel. The training corpus covers synthetic enterprise scenarios across 14+ industries — manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and travel.
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Topic · 5 stories Anthropic
- Math Can’t Go On LikeThe Atlantic Technology
- AISN #81: Anthropic Researcher’s Resignation Propels AI Risk into the Public EyeCenter for AI Safety
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joins growing chorus of tech leaders warning about AI risksCNBC Technology
- The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of addressesThe Register
- Anthropic co-founder confirms slowing AI is a 'collective action problem'NPR Technology
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Topic · 3 stories Microsoft
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Topic · 2 stories China
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Topic · 2 stories Hugging Face
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Topic · 2 stories Meta
- What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gambleMIT Technology Review
- AI app ads promoting 'objectification of women' banned by watchdogBBC Technology
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Topic · 2 stories OpenAI
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Topic · 2 stories Republicans
- AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per WattNVIDIA Blog
- Even Pitbull stopped his Madison Square Garden show to memorialize Parton and all the other “powerful women” in the crowdThe Guardian Technology
- Heart of the Matter: How a Major Children’s Hospital Uses Open Source NVIDIA AI for Cardiac CareNVIDIA Blog
- Dutch AI chip firm Euclyd raises $231 million in funding round co-led by SamsungDatacenter Dynamics
- AI panic sparks rare bipartisan moment on Capitol HillAxios
Business
3 storiesZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
The free mobile app ZuckOff, built by 30-year-old Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski, uses a Bluetooth detection system to tell you whether there is a pair of smart glasses in the room with you.
‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag
Courtney McAnuff was out of a year-long relationship in the summer of 2024 and starting to date again when she agreed to grab drinks with a potential suitor.
How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon
On Version History: The game’s designer tells us how the brutal edutainment adventure came together.
Politics
5 storiesVoting rights advocates welcome supreme court decision to stop Trump administration from restricting mail ballots– live
Voting rights groups and local officials welcomed the US supreme court decision on Monday to keep a new United States Postal Service rule from being implemented before the midterm elections.
Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump
In the spring of 2020, as a new and highly contagious virus spread throughout the country, the US came to a standstill. The economy shut down, cities emptied, and white-collar workers were sent home en masse.
The publication, whose full title is Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse (NIST IR 8587)
While the document is primarily written for federal agencies and the cloud service providers (CSPs) they work with, it can help any organization that handles identity tokens and related forms of identity assertions, said NIST Digital Identity Program Lead Ryan Galluzzo.
Awardees will sign a cooperative agreement for an initial performance period of up to five years
This award provides funds for the first year of the project, and future-year funding will be based on the availability of funding, successful annual performance reviews, and the continued alignment of the project to MEP, NIST and Department of Commerce priorities.
The FBI Doubles Down on Easing ‘Bestiality’ Hiring Standards
Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told confused members of the Senate judiciary committee on Tuesday that new FBI hiring standards are aimed at protecting “victims of bestiality.”
World
1 storyWhere in the world is the iPhone cheapest?
The buzz around Apple’s new phone launches is global, but the best deals haven’t made their way outside the U.S.
Crypto
25 storiesInside the last-minute political breakdown that doomed the Clarity Act vote
Senator Cynthia Lummis' disappointment was already palpable the day before the U.S. Senate shot down the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
Crypto Clarity Act flames out in faltered U.S. Senate vote
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed to survive the politics of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as a 49-50 vote meant to start the bill toward passage fell far short in rounding up the 60 supporters required to advance.
Also covering:Bitcoin.com News
Clarity Act Stalls in Senate as Crypto Bill Falters to Clear Key Vote
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday failed to clear a key procedural hurdle for the Clarity Act, setting back efforts to establish a federal framework for crypto markets.
However, one Republican Senate aide told The Block that they think the bill is dead
If a bill passes the Senate, it would still have to go through the House, which won't be possible until after the November elections. Anchorage Head of Digital Policy Kevin Wysocki pointed to a failed procedural vote last year when the Senate was trying to pass stablecoin legislation, which ultimately later became law.
Also covering:CoinDesk
Solana lender Kamino taps fintech veteran Michael Weisz as CEO for large U.S. expansion
Kamino KMNO $0.02480, one of Solana's largest lending protocols with $1.4 billion of assets, is setting up shop in New York as it looks to bring its onchain credit business closer to Wall Street and expanding to tokenized assets.
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Same story · 2 sources US Senate
- DOJ charges Robinhood former engineers with front-running crypto listings on HyperliquidThe Block
- Wall Street Bets on Fed Rate Hike: Here's What It Means for Bitcoin, Bonds and TrumpDecrypt
- Ark Invest sells $64 million in crypto holdings amid market surgeCrypto Briefing
- XStocks surpasses $1 billion in DEX trading volume as SPYx drives tokenized equity boom on SolanaCrypto Briefing
AI
37 storiesTrump Confirms He’s the Only ‘Guardrails’ AI Needs, Attacks Anthropic and Defends Data Centers
President Donald Trump said Monday that his presidency provides the guardrails artificial intelligence needs, attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and alleging a conspiracy against AI and data centers.
The second, Altman warned, is that power could become concentrated in one person or company
“Avoiding these two threats requires walking a narrow middle path; for example, one country could gain too much power,” he wrote. In a separate post, Altman said American AI companies must give the public confidence that they will develop increasingly capable systems responsibly as progress accelerates.
Whoever wins AI, wins," he told reporters, repeating a line he has used before to wave off regulatory pressure
The president had previously ducked some of these uncomfortable questions. Sunday's exchange marks the first time he's staked out a personal view, coming days after the September 8 deadline Hawley set for Flock to turn over its internal documents.
Microsoft Rolls out 'Humanist AI' Code of Conduct, Asks the Public to Poke Holes in It
Microsoft AI published a draft Code of Conduct on Monday governing how its own AI models are meant to behave, according to an announcement from CEO Mustafa Suleyman on X.
Bitcoin Climbs as AI Slowdown Calls Sink Nvidia, Intel and Other Chip Stocks
The growing calls for an AI slowdown, many of which coming from within the industry itself, are sending shockwaves throughout the market, sinking AI-related stocks.
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Same story · 3 sources Sam Altman · Anthropic · OpenAI
- The heads of the other three top US AI labs—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chairman Demis HassabisMIT Technology Review
- Sanders said he agrees with Wall Street Journal columnist and former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy NoonanThe Verge
- Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’The Register
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Same story · 2 sources Google
- The DeepMind researchers propose allowing agents to vote on disputes and temporarily ban offendersMIT Technology Review
- Published in The GuardianAlignment Forum
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Same story · 3 sources Dario Amodei · Anthropic
- AI models are becoming the ‘most potent cyber weapon’ ever assembled, Cohere CEO confirmsCNBC Technology
- Major AI firms want to ‘pace the frontier’, but their proposed solutions need real teethThe Verge
- The murky AI milestone that has some of the industry’s leading voices increasingly on edgeMarketWatch
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Topic · 6 stories Anthropic
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Development · 3 stories
- AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ developmentThe Guardian Technology
- AI-linked stocks fall after call for development slowdown worries investors, business liveThe Guardian Technology
- Sources close to Charles said he had taken an interest in AI development and its potential risksCointelegraph
- The August release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), came in at 3.4% year-on-year and met expectationsCointelegraph
- Regardless, the high profile claims have caused concernBBC Technology
- AI has increasingly become part of everyday life over the past decadeBBC Technology
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Topic · 2 stories Hugging Face
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Topic · 2 stories Iphone
- OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple catches a way outArs Technica
- Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: the foldable with the best triple cameraThe Guardian Technology
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Topic · 2 stories NVIDIA
- Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTXNVIDIA Blog
- Trump’s Team Confirms It’s on ThemWired
- CrowdStrike CEO on Anthropic’s AI safety warning: ‘The genie’s out of the bottle’CNBC Technology
Tech
2 storiesFounder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of the people most responsible for that Chinese lead.
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Business
1 storySexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
Almost 150 politicians across Europe have been included on harmful deepfake pornography websites over the last few years, according to new research seen by WIRED.
Finance
3 storiesRobinhood Chain's rapid growth has been driven by several factors, including the brokerage's strong brand
Since launching on July 1, Robinhood Chain's TVL has already climbed to nearly $1 billion. Palmer set to answer common investor questions he's received since initiating a "buy" rating and $170 price target on Robinhood's stock.
Also covering:Cointelegraph
India’s tokenized bond pilot starts with institutions, with retail access prepared next
India’s securities regulator has launched a pilot that places corporate bonds and their cash settlement on linked digital rails, moving ₹1,025 crore through the first three issuances while preserving the securities’ existing legal and economic terms.
Politics
1 storyMark Carney pitches Canada to global investors as ‘much more than being next to the United States’ and a reliable partner that
U.S. President Donald Trump wants factories and investment moving south to the United States.
World
2 storiesWhen Nureeyah Ogunmuyiwa decided to hire her first employee earlier this year, she faced an unexpected problem
The 24-year-old makeup artist, who caters to brides and bridal parties among others in Lagos, had never hired anyone before. With her business growing and Ogunmuyiwa stepping into content creation to promote her services, she knew she needed to hire help.
The Pentagon admits that Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings at U.S. bases across the Middle East
A U.S. government watchdog released its first report on the impact of the Iran war on Monday, acknowledging the military’s advanced weapons shortfalls and offering the first public look at the damage to American aircraft, bases and diplomatic outposts in the Middle East.
Crypto
18 storiesCynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., pushed for fellow lawmakers to advance the bill
"The Clarity Act is right in front of us and this moment won’t come along again for years," Lummis said in a post on X. This past year, the Senate has been trying to advance its version of the Clarity Act, which would regulate the crypto industry for the first time comprehensively at the federal level, giving the…
Even if Clarity falters, Wall Street’s crypto push is unlikely to stop
Wall Street may finally get a clearer crypto rulebook it has spent years waiting for when Washington passes a market structure bill on Tuesday.
Beacon Policy Advisors raised its estimate to 30%-40% from below 10% to 30%-40%
The latest proposal would also let the Treasury restrict stablecoin rewards if they cause substantial withdrawals from community banks. Banking groups argue those payments could draw away deposits used for lending, while crypto advocates want rewards preserved.
Also covering:CoinDesk
A bipartisan coalition of 17 state attorneys generals urge Senate to reject Clarity Act
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general called on the U.S. Senate to protect states' ability to police crypto in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a new letter Monday, and the state officials urged lawmakers to vote no on the bill without any changes.
The letter, sent to Senate Banking Committee Republican Chair Tim Scott and top Democrat Elizabeth Warren
Among the changes, the latest version gives state attorneys general a role in enforcing conflict-of-interest rules for public officials. This had become a major sticking point among some Democrats given President Donald Trump's vast crypto wealth, which has grown to hundreds of millions of dollars linked to World…
- White House crypto adviser confirms Trump gave up 'historic' ethics powers in compromiseCoinDesk
- Robinhood gears up share redemptions, voting rights for stock tokens, after criticismCoinDesk
- Circle’s Arc launch ties Wall Street firms to the network without making them its safety netCryptoSlate
- Bitmine Introduces $68 Million in Ethereum as Holdings Near 6 Million ETHDecrypt
- BlackRock ETF clients sell $19 million worth of Bitcoin as spot funds see broader redemptionsCrypto Briefing
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